The "new" Square has successfully achieved all of our community's goals for this major public enhancement project in Downtown Hagerstown. All of the undesirable aspects of the mid-1970s design were removed from the Square and a new design with a timeless quality and a more open atmosphere was established. The "new" Public Square has an "old" feeling with its brick pavers, masonry planters with new trees and colorful landscape materials, traditional lamp poles along the streets and beside the buildings, and more urban traffic signals and street lights at the intersection. Two necessary modernizations were achieved unobtrusively: all four quadrants of the Square were made handicapped accessible and received new underground service utilities.

The "new" Public Square invokes pride in our community with its more attractive atmosphere, its accommodations to citizens and visitors to the Downtown, and its ability to more readily host public events. Public involvement in the project has also given our community a feeling of ownership in the Pubic Square. It is our hope that the goodwill generated by the Public Square Project will spread and inspire pride in the heart of our community, Downtown Hagerstown.